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The 40 most common Italian verbs

Verbs change shape more than any other words, so a list of infinitives only gets you halfway. Here each of the most frequent Italian verbs comes with the form you hear in “he does” and a past form, for example fare → fa, faceva; essere → è, era; dire → dice, diceva.

#WordHe/she, presentPastTranslationLevel
1farefafacevadoA1
2essereèerabeA1
3diredicedicevasayA1
4vederevedevedevaseeA1
5parlareparlaparlavaspeakA1
6saperesasapevaknowA1
7prendereprendeprendevatakeA1
8venirevienevenivacomeA1
9trovaretrovatrovavafindA1
10tornaretornatornavareturnA1
11pensarepensapensavathinkA1
12entrareentraentròenterA1
13sentiresentehearA1
14capirecapisceunderstandA2
15daredàdavagiveA2
16moriremuoremorivadieA2
17viverevivevivevaliveA2
18perdereperdeperdevaloseA2
19lavorarelavoralavoravaworkA2
20mangiaremangiaeatA2
21crederecredecredevabelieveA2
22passarepassapassavapassA2
23cercarecercacercavasearchA2
24metteremettemettevaputA2
25uccidereuccideuccidevakillA2
26berebevebevevadrinkA2
27lasciarelascialasciavaletA2
28diventarediventadiventavabecomeA2
29portareportaportavabringA2
30aspettareaspettaaspettavawaitA2
31arrivarearrivaarrivavaarriveA2
32dormiredormesleepA2
33usareusausavauseA2
34guardareguardaguardavalookA2
35restarerestarestavastayA2
36chiamarechiamachiamavacallA2
37provareprovaprovavaproveA2
38aiutareaiutaaiutavahelpA2
39cambiarecambiacambiavachangeA2
40giocaregiocagiocavaplayA2

Forms come from the UniMorph tables and Universal Dependencies treebanks, which linguists compiled. When a table has no form, the cell stays empty instead of guessing. Depending on the language, the past form shown is the simple past or the imperfect.

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Sources: translations and pronunciation from Wiktionary (wikdict, CC BY-SA 3.0) and ipa-dict (MIT), frequency from OpenSubtitles (FrequencyWords).